News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper. Parent comment

Re:Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper by grey-area on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:08AM (#39333352)
That’s not even the worst case though, worse by far than interpolating (whatever method is used) is simply taking data from countries with a similar name to fill gaps.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper by InSteady on Sunday February 11, 2024 @08:12AM (#39334762)
"What was your rational for using data from the Netherlands to fill in the missing values in New Zealand?"

"Um, both countries start with the letter N"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper by jakeinspace on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:31PM (#39338374)
Should’ve used Denmark rather than Netherlands, as it’s the Old Zealand.
[ Parent | on HN ]